System and method for staging in a cloud environment

US9529639B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SOFTWARE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Bhaskar Reddy Byreddy · Bengaluru, IN
• Piotr Walicki · Darmstadt, DE
• Dobromir Karamelski · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Udo Hafermann · Darmstadt, DE
• Preetha Srinivasan · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 30, 2014
• Grant date: Dec 27, 2016
• Expiry date: Nov 7, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/5072
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system for staging in a cloud environment defines a default stage for integration flows. An integration flow is defined by (a) stages including (i) a live stage to follow the default stage, (ii) additional stages between the default and live stages, and (b) endpoint definitions for the live and additional stages. In response to an instruction to promote the integration flow, the integration flow is load balanced by allocating each stage to execution environment(s). Then, the integration flow is run in the execution environment(s). The load balancing includes, for each stage, (i) retrieving a list of execution environments which are available for execution of stages, (ii) selecting execution environment(s) on which to execute the stage and updating the list of available execution environments to indicate that the selected execution environment(s) is allocated, and (iii) storing the selected execution environment(s) as specific to the stage.